Shaping Britain's Technology Future. Conservatively.
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The British state is running on yesterday's technology, with today's bureaucracy, at tomorrow's expense.
Today we launch our second policy paper 🇬🇧 Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State.
Do check it out 👇
conservatech.io/research-and…
The @AISecurityInst is a fantastic invention from this country. There is a global leadership position available to us here - the Government needs to take it and double down on AISI.
Anthropic: “We cannot underscore enough the impact that UK @AISecurityInst has had, and will continue to have, on global AI safety and security.”
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The UK budget is in. Here's everything you need to know:
🇬🇧 No exit tax or increase in capital gains
🇬🇧 Brand new "founder’s relief” - 10% tax up to £10m lifetime gains and BADR thresholds cut by half
🇬🇧 The non-compete ban we already knew about, but slightly more fleshed out
🇬🇧 The additional AI money, which we already knew about, but in more detail
🇬🇧 Some very important changes to visas to attract better talent to the UK
🇬🇧 £5bn for BBB including more money to back female founders
🇬🇧 "Young Entrepreneurs Allowance" which covers living costs for young entrepreneur
I have probably missed some bits but overall this is a lot more pro-tech and pro-entrepreneur than I think people were expecting.
Great stuff from @adepledge, @Dom_Hallas and all those working tirelessly behind the scenes to advocate for a strong entrepreneurial economy here in the UK.
LETS GO
It’s fantastic that we have brilliant companies like @IsembardGroup here in Britain.
What amazes us more is that they’re building all this in *spite* of high taxes and burdensome regulation.
Imagine the success this country could have if we take the handbrake off.
That’s what the next @Conservatives government will do.
Britain’s defence industry is undergoing a revolution, and 33-year-old entrepreneur Alexander Fitzgerald is at its forefront.
His company, Isembard, uses AI-powered manufacturing to produce components for drones, jet engines and robotics, helping meet surging demand as Britain and its allies rearm.
@davidblairdt paid him a visit ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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What gives me the most hope about Britain is also the most frustrating: our problems are self-imposed.
Regulation is strangling innovation and growth.
As @matthewlesh sets out here: ‘The issue is that business are very frightened of falling into the trap of breaching regulations, so they do not pursue a project because of the risk,’
UK data regulation costs British tech businesses an estimated £5.3 billion a year in compliance alone.
That’s from new research by Freshwater Strategy for CCIA, surveying 113 data-intensive tech businesses. Two-thirds (69%) say compliance costs have risen over the past 5-10 years, while none say they have fallen.
But compliance is only one slice of the ultimate cost to the British economy:
- Half (52%) reported not undertaking a business activity due to data regulation
- Firms are scaling back analytics, delaying products and holding back AI features
- Some are launching new products, including AI agents, offshore to avoid red tape
‘The issue is that business are very frightened of falling into the trap of breaching regulations, so they do not pursue a project because of the risk,’ explained one respondent. ‘Overzealous regulation means that taking that route is simply not worth the risk capital to get the feature up and running – better to place bets elsewhere,’ said another.
62% say uncertainty about enforcement matters more than the rules themselves, while 68% say the risk of getting it wrong is out of proportion to the actual risk to individuals.
The ICO’s newly appointed independent board has an opportunity to shift culture, not just the letterhead.
So much legislative time wasted on ideas many knew would not work.
There are important principles: protecting children is one of them, but the problematic monolith that the OSA became is not a solution.
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We were repeatedly told the Online Safety Act's primary goal was to make the internet safer for children; now they're admitting it hasn't achieved that goal.
There was never evidence that the 'duty of care' model would work; it was untested, and now it is proving unsuccessful, despite signifigant costs for users and platforms.
We have faced age-gating of legitimate content and hundreds of web forums shutting down because they struggled to comply. It's saddening, if anything, that for all this faff, the law itself has failed.
ICYMI: earlier today, we launched our second paper: Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State 🇬🇧
One person. One government. One record. Tell government once, for everything 🔁
conservatech.io/research-and…
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Our second policy paper is here 🇬🇧🚀
There’s a huge opportunity for the next Conservative government to properly modernise the state, fully leverage and protect citizen data and make life easier for small businesses.
Here’s how we get there 👇
The British state is running on yesterday's technology, with today's bureaucracy, at tomorrow's expense.
Today we launch our second policy paper 🇬🇧 Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State.
Do check it out 👇
conservatech.io/research-and…
We’d also rebuild HMRC’s front door, put GDS back at the heart of government, and get the right people into the right seats.
When the state uses technology to make decisions, the rule is simple: a machine can decide, but a person must answer ⚖️
A state that asks less of its people, uses what it already holds, decides quickly, and answers for what it decides.
Smaller, smarter, faster. That’s the Conservative case 📄 Read the full paper: conservatech.io/research-and…
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Really looking forward to this!
Do join us👇
We’re hosting our launch reception in November alongside the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
If you want to help shape tech policy for the next Conservative government, we’d love to see you there 👇
luma.com/tk2zywws
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This is an excellent report from Big Brother Watch on the Online Safety Act — but this foreword from Nadine Dorries is a laughable attempt to rewrite history and deflect responsibility.
Everything that’s happened since the law’s passage was foreseeable and foreseen, the entirely predictable consequence of the underlying design. Dorries’ legislation was not ‘meticulously drafted’. It was always a complete mess that was going to undermine free expression.
It always required age gating for any content that could be considered psychically or psychologically harmful to children. It also always had an extremely long list of duties that would be impossible for smaller web forums to complete with. The amendments made it worse, but they are not to blame for the current mess.
The Online Safety Act has made hosting community forums so laborious that they're closing shop.
Hundreds of forums have shuttered due to piling paperwork and liability risks.
Ordinary speech from ordinary people, gone.
Read our report ⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
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We’re hosting a launch reception for @Conserva_Tech in November with the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
Do sign up if that sounds like you’re kind of evening 👇
luma.com/tk2zywws
We’re hosting our launch reception in November alongside the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
If you want to help shape tech policy for the next Conservative government, we’d love to see you there 👇
luma.com/tk2zywws
As @NeilDotObrien suggests, this is a bad idea for many reasons - but one above all:
How can politicians look at the EU, its sluggish growth and sparse innovation and want to align our laws with it in any way?
It has been to Britain’s great advantage that we are not subject to the EU’s AI Act.
We have so much domestic policy change to get through if we want to genuinely compete in AI. Locking ourselves to a backwater would be a terrible start.
The EU’s new AI law is a bad idea.
Cutting European governments off from using the best AI is a bad idea - and Britain shouldn’t join in.
neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-eus-n…
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Britain was once a country that embraced extraordinary risks to build extraordinary things.
Today, we seem increasingly preoccupied with finding reasons why things can’t be done.
Kemi’s right - and we’re going to fix it.
